Windows Server 8 Development Preview

The development preview version of Windows Server 8, which is also released with the Windows 8 Development preview version, is also available. If you are interested, you can go to msdn to download it (you must have an msdn account ).

The installation process is not described in detail. The main changes are as follows: Windows Server 2008/R2 system boot partition is 100 m, and now it is M.

After Windows Server 8 is installed, the metro UI and the server management interface based on the new UI are designed to provide more intuitive functions and facilitate server management.

Compared with its predecessors, the Server Manager tool of Windows Server 2008 has improved significantly in terms of local server management, role configuration, and server functions. Windows 8, however, takes this further and allows us to use its tools in multiple systems at the same time. For example, you can create a server group and then change multiple systems. That is to say, we can now treat multiple of our IIS servers or DHCP servers as a separate server, remote Control of the server in a group-this is undoubtedly a good news for the core servers with equal system status. Today, you can easily handle a large number of management tasks, including installation and update, restart, and adjustment.

To reduce the anxiety of many enterprise system administrators in managing patches and updates, Microsoft is developing cluster technology, which can deliver multiple patches across multiple servers at the same time. The cluster can perceive that the Update Wizard (cauw) will appear in Windows Server 8. The Administrator does not need to allow the machine to be updated offline to the cluster system, which saves it workstation an expensive downtime.

Currently, powershell cmdlets has more than two hundred basic entries, and in Windows Server 8, we have found more than 2300